This session brings together eight scholars whose research examines the intersections of industrial decline, environmental activism and remediation, and policy responses by a variety of levels of government.| NiCHE
Jack Hoggarth, a survivor of colonial Catholic schooling, reclaims identity through Anishinaabe teachings, ceremony, and Land, proving assimilation failed—resilience endures.| NiCHE
Arctic melt images simplify climate crisis, erasing people, politics, and histories; Audrey Medaino-Tardif calls for plural visuals including Indigenous presence and knowledge.| NiCHE
Erie Canal’s 200th: engineering success, reshaped settlement, boosted trade, harmed Indigenous lands and ecosystems, linked U.S.–Canada waterways, now mostly recreational.| NiCHE
Fallout 4 explores blurred boundaries between inside and outside through player-built settlements, artificial environments, and survival mechanics shaped by radiation and shelter.| NiCHE
Arctic visual studies have rapidly expanded through interdisciplinary collaboration, climate urgency, Indigenous engagement, and community-building among artists, historians, and scholars across disciplines.| NiCHE
We will consider any environmental history topic that relates to Saskatchewan, including trans-regional and comparative topics| NiCHE
Eight Nisichawayasihk Cree children were taken from their homeland to Red Deer Industrial School; most died, yet their Nation endures.| NiCHE
This call for papers invites participants to consider the way conceptions of self and other change over time, their tensions, and mediations.| NiCHE
Urban and Environmental Dialogues will explore how the environment-at-large and the urban built environment have shaped one another throughout history.| NiCHE
Ice Geographies examines Arctic colonial politics, emphasizing ice as racialized geography, Indigenous knowledge, slowness, and questioning certainty in research practices.| NiCHE
Dark Harbour’s geography fostered fishing and dulse industries.| NiCHE
Digitizing Toyokuni IV’s 1872 board game, scholars recreated Yokohama’s hybrid modernity, blending history, travel, and playful discovery for students.| NiCHE
Station Eleven reframes contagion as infrastructural collapse, exposing ecological and logistical fragility.| NiCHE
Once vital for freight and passengers, Nova Scotia’s Blueberry Express railway now thrives as a scenic multi-use trail celebrating local heritage.| NiCHE
Barachois - this word evokes a brackish wetland with a retro littoral zone, separated from the sea by a barrier (of pebbles, sand, or mixed substrate) but connected by a channel (a goulet, or grau).| NiCHE
The processes designed to “soften” Upper Canada’s disease landscape—such as agriculture and settlement—were also tools of settler colonialism.| NiCHE
